ALEKSANDRA SEKULIĆ AND BRANKA BENČIĆ

Solidarity as Disruption

Solidarity
disrupts the systems of inequality and hierarchy. In dealing with the
migrations in recent years, the solidarity with refugees and migrants, in
contrast to the violent politics of the fortress, lead to a re-examining of the
very meaning and the possibility of solidarity. How to think of solidarity as a
political project and re/activate its methods through the cinema? How to
rethink the historical heritage as a resource and work on a contemporary
register of solidarity?

Tracing
the connections of modes of production and political practice in
cinema, the programme will explore the archive and continuity of
emancipation politics, observing solidarity through the disruptive practices of
cinema: from the de-elitisation of the production (radical amateurism) and the
spatial politics of everyday to kinepolitics, the cinema which reflects the
movement of the people, to the aesthetic forms and documents of workers’ life
practices in the films and film fronts which are re-claiming the future.

In
screenings, a Podium discussion and lectures, the programme builds on the
heritage and contemporary positions of cinema and artistic practice from the
former Yugoslavia since the 1960s in an international dialogue, including films
by Želimir Žilnik, Tomoslav Gotovac, Bojana Marjan, Igor Grubić, Nika Autor,
Vlado Kristl, Krsto Papić, Dušan Makavejev, Doplgenger, Chto Delat and others.